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13-letter words containing e, g, p

  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
  • psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
  • psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
  • psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pubococcygeus — a muscle that stretches backward from the pubes toward the coccyx and forms part of the pelvic floor. Abbreviation: PC.
  • pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
  • pull the plug — If someone in a position of power pulls the plug on a project or on someone's activities, they use their power to stop them continuing.
  • pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • putting green — green (def 24).
  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • queue-jumping — If you accuse someone of queue-jumping, you mean that they are trying to get to the front of a queue or waiting list unfairly.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • racing pigeon — a pigeon bred and trained for the sport of pigeon racing
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
  • reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
  • reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
  • reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
  • recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • regent's park — a park in central London, laid out as Marylebone Park by John Nash; now known for the London Zoo, its open-air theatre, and Nash's curved terraces
  • regular graph — (mathematics)   A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • reporter gene — a gene with an easily recognizable phenotype, used in analysing the regulation of gene structures
  • repositioning — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • resting place — grave
  • retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
  • ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
  • rogue program — a computer virus
  • rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
  • rough passage — a stormy sea journey
  • rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
  • self-pleasing — giving pleasure; agreeable; gratifying: a pleasing performance.
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